I honestly don't know, but it might be Noah in inpatient psychiatric hospitalization. I mean if he invented an entire reality where he was bullied and abused by a prison guard and even engaged in life-threatening self-harm, he's a prime candidate for intensive psychiatric care. I can't imagine that Noah, who tracked down Gunther's home and confronted him, at the same time Helen had been confessing her "sins" to the Butlers and Vik, was better in a short duration.
Frankly the timelines are quite convoluted, it's fall when Noah is teaching at Livingston, so we begin the season approaching Thanksgiving and Christmas. Noah delivers Whitney to Helen and company on Christmas eve. So are we talking a matter of a few months, or is this a period of one whole year. Alison attends Joanie's birthday party and it's outside and somewhat warm. When they head to Block Island it's OFF season:
So, are you happy here? Are you glad you came? Well, it's, uh it's better than prison.
[laughs] I'll have to remember that on the days I'm feeling particularly depressed.
[both chuckle] Why are you depressed? Oh, "depressed" is probably wrong.
I just feel bored.
Ennui.
I thought I'd come to America and have a grand adventure, you know? - Mm.
- I'd be at a famous university, arguing with passionate students late into the nights.
And instead, it's, um Instead, it's New Jersey.
Yes.
Where everyone is just so Nice.
Before I began, I got a kind of a a merde How do you say? A sermon from the dean about making the students feel secure.
I thought, "Secure, at a university? Why?" - [laughs softly] - [Juliette] I don't remember feeling secure when I was in school, do you? - No.
- You see? I said, "Monsieur, surely our job is to challenge them, to unsettle, to make them feel insecure, no?" - Mm-hmm.
- No.
[chuckles] [light music playing] Yeah, it wasn't always like this.
I remember back when I was teaching high school, I started noticing a change after 9/11.
Mm.
The president came on the television and started talking about keeping Americans safe, and suddenly all the students were repeating it.
And these current students, they're they're even younger, and and they've grown up on a whole rhetoric of s [ dramatic music ] [Juliette] <b>Noah, are you all right? Uh, yeah.
Yeah, uh I'm having a small dinner party tonight.[/b]
Would you like to come? Sure.
Okay.
Très bien.
So sorry I'm late.
Shall we? You're teaching only one class, correct? That's right, yeah.
I, uh I'm hoping for more next semester.
How's it going? Well, I think.
I think it's going well.
No trouble? Nope.
The job ends in December? Yes, but, uh there's a there's a possibility I'll be invited back for the spring term.
So if it's compressed from say August/September to Christmas eve that we see in Season 3, that's NOT enough time for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation from psychotic episodes especially with history of self-harm. Not to mention, he's a convicted felon on parole which kinda makes overseas travel not as easy as the show makes it seem.
IF this is an imagined ending for Noah--everything amicable, his relationships healed or at least not antagonistic anymore--then perhaps Season 4 begins with Noah in treatment, in therapy unpacking
exactly what all had happened to his mother and what part he had in her demise, and maybe what exactly went down between his father and himself
after his mother's death. For all we know, Arthur in his own guilt for not being there for his wife, and leaving Noah to care for his wife, and ashamed of not being at his wife's side when she passed, in reading the farewell letter written by Noah, projected his anger at himself and blamed Noah. And maybe THIS was the genesis of Noah's self-blame and the inception of the fabrication that he accelerated his mother's demise.
AT this point, who knows...
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